20 JANUARY 1956, page 24

The Land

THE history of agriculture in Britain during the 1939-45 war should be, without question, a success story. That is the thought which heads Sir Keith Murray's concluding chapter......

Those Which Hate Them

And they blessed Rebecca and said unto her, let thy seed possess the gates of those which hate them. PROFESSOR WILLIAMS offers us, in his new book, which is a mag- nificent feat......

New Novels

THE RAPIDS. By Basil Davidson. (Jonathan Cape, 13s. 6d.) A POINT OF ORDER. By Gwyn Thomas. (Gollancz, 12s. 6d.) A TANGLED WEB. By Nicholas Blake. (Collins, 12s. 6d.) THE LILAC......